Snapshots

Winter 2025 Group Outing - Fluffy snow and a fluffy creature at Parc de la Gatineau
Introducing Canadian winter fun to our visitors from Brazil and Germany
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Fall 2024 Group Outing - A Beautiful Day at the Ottawa Greenbelt
From Jack Pine to Beaver and Chipmunk and finally Lime Kiln Trail: Lot's of hungry birds and scurrying squirrels​
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The Group in October 2024 - Wunnam, Nan, Hana, Chris, Raquel, Jeremy, Philippe, Lilianna, Sitharth
​(missing: Erik and Abbie)
19 September 2024 - We proudly present the group's first PhD: Congratulations, Nan Liu, for the successful defense of your PhD thesis on lanthanide-based nanoparticles! Also introducing the "German Doctor Hat" to the lab"! 🙂
July 2024 - The group said Goodbye to our postdoc Dr. Christian Homann. For sure, we will miss him. Keep always aiming high, Christian, and all the best for your next position at BAM (Germany) with Dr. Ute Resch-Genger (see you there in fall🙂).
The group attends UPCON 2024 in Montreal - Beautiful Montreal, exciting talks, and a stellar eclipse!
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Last technical group meeting for 2023 - Hana captured the group's mood: smiling faces! :-)
The group in Fall 2023 - Eva, Nan, Jeremy, Connor, Helliomar, Christian, Abbie, Lucas, Hana and Ryan (missing: Jessica)
Back to School in September 2023 - Time to say goodbye to visiting student Manuela from the UK and to welcome our new students. 
Snow enthusiasts February 2023 - Eva, Christian, Hana, Nan, Sabrina and Helliomar
2023 Winter Fun
It's cold out there - let's do some applied science!
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The group in Fall 2022 - Helliomar, Nan, Sabrina, Hana, Ryan, Christian, Eva, Connor, Abbie and Sinedu (missing Trinity and Alexandre)!
2022 Fall Lunch Picnic
Celebrating the colourful fall and the people in the group
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2022 Summer Get-Together
Exploring Gatineau Park together with the group - from Lac Pink to Lac Philippe
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The group in Winter 2022 - Finally an in-person group picture!
2022 Winter Walk
Embracing the cold and having some fun at Ottawa's Mud Lake and Britannia Beach!
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022: Celebrating our ladies!
2021 Halloween Pumpkin Contest
Getting spooky with upconversion and brain imaging!
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Summer Picnic 2021 at Rideau River
Fully vaccinated, fully outdoors, fully enjoyed - our first in-person get-together since too long. So nice to see everyone!
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The group in June 2021 - Still on Zoom... (missing: Adam and Alexandre)
The group in September 2020 - Happy to have everyone back and to see quite a few new faces in the lab and online (missing: Amanda)!
Summer 2020 - The group (from left to right: Emille, Nan, Fathi, Eva) is celebrating the reopening of the lab and Nan's PhD Scholarship by the Chinese Scholarship Council. Congrats, Nan!
06 February 2020 - Congratulations, Ilias, for having defended your Master's Thesis! Best wishes for your PhD thesis at the University of Toronto!
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The group in October 2019 - Tina, Nicholas, Parrish, Nikita, Fathi, Ilias, Eva, Emille, and Nan
31 October 2019 - Congratulations, Nan, for having defended your Master's Thesis! Best wishes for your PhD project!
August 2019: Saying Goodbye to summer student Nabojit - Stay in touch and all the best!
(Manjot. Nan, Tina, Ilias, Eva, Nabojit, and Emille)
The group in July 2019 - Ilias, Nelson, Nabojit, Manjot, Tina,
​Nan, Emille and Eva (missing: Nikita)
Summer Potluck Picnic 2019 at Major's Hill Park
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Summer 2019 is "MITCAS Globalink summer"
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Nabojit from India spends the summer with us in Canada, while Nikita from our group is currently performing optical experiments in Spain. 
Riccardo's Farewell Party - April 2019
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Bringing together friends of lanthanides, luminescence, magnetism, molecules and materials to discuss science and to network!
Faduma, Ilias, and Nan present their work on nanoparticles and quantum dots at the
​uOttawa Chemical and Synthetic Biology Day
The group in August 2018 - Faduma, Eva, Riccardo, Steven, Nan, Ilias and Nikita
By-product of our collaboration with the Murugesu Group: Luminescent nail polish! 
 Having fun with Materials Chemistry:
Riccardo and Nikita presented their work on lanthanide-based materials - "They are awesome. And I mean that!" (Riccardo about the lanthanides)
Riccardo in his natural habitat (with freshly prepared CuS nanos)
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The group in September 2017 - Front: Ilias, Nathaniel, Nan. Back: Eva, Fadi, Nikita. Missing: Kinna
Celebrating the end of the 2017 Winter Term with Rebecca, Yacine, Jamal, Jeffry, Kinna and Alex
Congrats to Rebecca, ​Jeffry and Alex for their successful Honours Projects!
Lab Members August 2016: Alex, Nathaniel and Rayan (Drawing by Nathaniel)